Dutch Immigration To Canada

The Dutch in Canada have a rich and varied history. The first Dutch in North America established trading posts in 1614 along the Hudson River at Manhattan Island and at Fort Orange (Albany NY), That was during the days of the Dutch colonial empire.1 European explorers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, and families, including the Dutch, were crossing the stormy Atlantic Ocean for the next 150 years to take up life and opportunity on the new continent, North America.